The Ładoś List : an index of people to whom the Polish Legation and Jewish organisations in Switzerland issued Latin American passports during the Second World War / Jakub Kumoch (ed.), Monika Maniewska, Jędrzej Uszyński and Bartłomiej Zygmunt : translation by Julia Niedzielko and Ian Stephenson.

Kumoch, Jakub, editor
Maniewska, Monika, author
Uszyński, Jędrzej, author
Zygmunt, Bartłomiej, author
Niedzielko, Julia, translator
Stephenson, Ian, translator

2nd edition.

Warsaw : Pilecki Institute, 2021.

186 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 25 cm.

During the Second World War, an unofficial group of Polish diplomats from the Polish Legation in Bern, led by that country's envoy to Switzerland Aleksander Ładoś, cooperated with representatives of Jewish organisations to rescue European Jews. From at least the beginning of 1941 until the end of 1943, the members illegally purchased and issued passports and citizenship certificates of four South and central American states: Paraguay, Honduras, Haiti and Peru. These were delivered to people under threat of death in the Holocaust and served to protect bearers from transport to the death camps located in the Third Reich. This publication represents the first attempt to create a list of all the people for whom these documents were created, which includes 3,282 individuals. The list is accompanied by description of the Ładoś Group's actions, the development methods used and a preliminary statistical analysis of the material.

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